Gen Alpha

English

Alternative forms

• gen Alpha

Proper noun

Gen Alpha

1. (demography, informal) Generation Alpha
   • 2025 March 7, Callie Holtermann, “Gen Z Is Tired of Chasing the Trend Cycle”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     But she does not think the online trend madness will slow down anytime soon. Enter Gen Alpha, whose eyes are already racing across screens.

   • 2025 June 25, Elle Hunt, “From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Tim remembers that washing up in his classroom, too. “The kids love it so much, the word ‘skibidi’ is now part of gen Z and gen Alpha vernacular.”

   • 2025 October 31, Trey Parker, “The Woman in the Hat”, in South Park, season 28, episode 2, spoken by Stan:

     South Park is getting ruined, and all of us Gen Alpha kids are just sitting here, watching it happen.

Noun

Gen Alpha (plural Gen Alphas)

1. A member of Generation Alpha.

   Synonyms: Alpha, Generation Alpha

   • 2016, Joeri Van Den Bergh, How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generations Y and Z, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 11:

     Gen Alphas are the kindergarten and pre-school children of Millennials.

   • 2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press, →ISBN:

     Gen Zers and Gen Alphas are seeing the political work of their peers via the internet and are adapting a more global view of political causes.

   • 2022, Tim Elmore, A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Maxwell Leadership, →ISBN, pages 271–272:

     According to [Mark] McCrindle, “Gen Alpha will likely stay in education longer, start their earning years later and so stay at home with their parents later than even their predecessors, Gen Z and Gen Y. The role of parents, therefore, will span a longer age range—with many of these Gen Alphas likely to still be living at home later into their 20s.”

   • 2022, Carol A. Darling, Dawn Cassidy, Sharon M. Ballard, Family Life Education: Working with Families across the Lifespan, 4th edition, Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press, →ISBN, page 77:

     Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas who have been reared on evolving technologies, may also have little tolerance for lecture-style learning (Hughes, 2020; Mohr & Mohr, 2017; Zarra, 2017).

See also

Timeline of generations

Anagrams

• Phalange, phalange